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Posted on April 11, 2016 |

BRANDON — In a quiet corner of the student support room at the Neshobe Elementary School in Brandon, a boy reads and a dog listens.

It’s Friday, and third-grader William Burt, 9, is carefully reading aloud to Ivan, a two-year-old German shorthaired pointer, and Ivan’s owner, Kristie Adams.

Ivan is a therapy dog, and once a month Adams brings him to Neshobe through a program offered by Caring Canines Therapy, a nonprofit group based in Massachusetts. He is one of three dogs that visit the student support room at Neshobe to do just that: support.

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Posted on March 31, 2016 |

SUDBURY — A local man is lucky to be alive after he drove his truck off Route 73 and into the Otter Creek one morning last week.

Just before 6 a.m. on March 23, Brandon police responded to a report of an accident on Route 73 West involving a pickup truck that had driven off the roadway and into the Otter Creek. Police responded and learned that a 62-year-old man from Sudbury was traveling eastbound on the road toward Brandon on his way to a medical appointment.

Posted on March 28, 2016 |

BRANDON — “The Girl with the Purple Hair: A Retrospective,” an exhibit by Brandon fiber artist Judith Reilly, opens at Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon on Friday, April 1, with a reception from 5-7:30 p.m.

Posted on March 24, 2016 |

BRANDON — The Otter Valley Union High School Walking Stick Theater group is used to excelling in the arena of high school drama. Under the guidance of director Jeff Hull, the group has earned accolades statewide for its work in one-act plays and musicals. And in 2015, there was international praise as well, as the troupe was invited to the renowned International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.

But this year, Walking Stick has created an original one-act performance piece unlike anything they’ve done before, and the work is getting noticed.

Posted on March 3, 2016 |

BRANDON — Voters in the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union overwhelmingly approved budgets on Tuesday for the new Otter Valley Unified Union School District and Barstow Unified Union School District formed under the state’s Act 46 school consolidation law.

The state’s only side-by-side school district is now fully funded and among the first consolidated districts to be formed under the law, which passed last year.

Posted on March 3, 2016 |

BRANDON — For the second year in a row, Brandon voters threw their support behind the town budget as proposed and all ballot items passed on Town Meeting Day.

The $2,486,822 net municipal spending plan passed, 735-459; that figure represented a spending increase of $51,452, or 2.11 percent, over the current budget. The projected tax bill increase comes to $10.80 per $100,000 of property value. The average home in Brandon is valued at $170,000 and therefore the tax increase would amount to $18.36 for the year.

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Posted on February 29, 2016 |

BRANDON — The Brandon Town Players will hold open auditions for a performance of old-time radio plays. The plays will bring back memories with classic shows such as “Burns & Allen,” “Dick Tracy” and “Superman,” just to name a few. Anyone with a good speaking voice is encouraged to audition.

Auditions will be held Sunday, March 6, and Sunday, March 13, at 2 p.m. at the Brandon Senior Center on Route 73 in Brandon. The performance is on Saturday, June 4, at the Brandon Town Hall.

Posted on February 25, 2016 |

BRANDON — On Town Meeting Day Brandon voters will consider a municipal budget that would require the town to collect about 2 percent more in taxes than it did last year.

Brandon’s annual town and school district meeting will take place on Monday beginning at 7 p.m. at Neshobe School. Voting on town and school budgets and officers will take place Monday at the school from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.